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She is charming, successful and the world’s best networker. But has Arianna Huffington also worked out the secret of spiritual contentment?

On the wall opposite Arianna Huffington’s desk is a vast TV permanently set to
rolling news and above it, a bit askew, a framed photo of a deserted beach
at sunset. This is the new Huffington, who is both tuned in and chilled out,
who runs a global media brand sold to AOL for $315 million (£188 million),
but is also the aspiring queen of mindfulness, “living in the moment” and
similar New Age blah.

Indeed, she has just coined her own buzz term: “the third metric”. It is not
enough, she argues, to succeed in terms of money and

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Don’t mess with Arianna Huffington

March 22 2014

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Arianna Huffington, photographed on the roof of The Huffington Post’s New York HQ

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Arianna Huffington, photographed on the roof of The Huffington Post’s New York HQ

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Arianna Huffington and her late mother, Elli

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In New York in 1987 alongside her ex-husband, Michael Huffington

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With her daughters Christina (left) and Isabella in 2011

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Being greeted by Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, during her 2003 campaign to become Governor of California